Sea Around Us recently announced its collaboration with West African countries on catch reconstructions through the West African Regional Marine and Coastal Conservation Partnership (PRCM). Daniel Pauly, principal investigator of the Sea Around Us, said his team is keen to work with stakeholders in the coastal zone in the order to ensure catch reconstruction data [...]

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On December 15, in Washington D.C., The Pew Charitable Trusts hosted a conversation between Sea Around Us’ Daniel Pauly and Juliet Eilperin, a White House correspondent for The Washington Post. The event marked a 15-year partnership between Pew and Sea Around Us. Before her role as White House correspondent, Eilperin spent eight years as the [...]

Sea Around Us and William Cheung of the Changing Ocean Research Unit at the UBC Fisheries Centre have transformed two datasets into planetary datasets as part of the NOAA Science on a Sphere educational initiative (sos.noaa.gov/). While these data had been previously published in the scientific literature (Cheung et al. 2009, Fish and Fisheries 10(3): [...]

The University of British Columbia’s Sea Around Us project has received $2.6 million (U.S.) from The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation to provide African and Asian countries with more accurate and comprehensive fisheries data to help them better analyze and support their ocean resources and local economies. “This generous support will help UBC fisheries researchers work with [...]

New Sea Around Us research estimates Panama’s total fish catches were vastly under-reported — by almost 40 per cent — between 1950 and 2010. The recent study, led by Sea Around Us’ Sarah Harper and co-authored by Kyrstn Zylich, Dirk Zeller and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s Héctor Guzmán, was published in Marine Fisheries Review’s most recent [...]

About the Project

The aims of the project are to provide an integrated analysis of the impacts of fisheries on marine ecosystems, and to devise policies that can mitigate and reverse harmful trends whilst ensuring the social and economic benefits of sustainable fisheries. The Sea Around Us has assembled global databases of catches, distribution of commercial marine species, countries fishing access agreements, ex-vessel prices, marine protected areas and other data—all available online with the hopes of collaboration. The project is described by Dr. Pauly, the principal investigator, in greater detail in a paper published in Ambio in 2007. Contact the Sea Around Us if you have any data queries or other questions.

What’s in a Name?

The Sea Around Us Project was named after Rachel Carson's 1951 bestselling book on marine conservation with the same title.

The Logo

The logo of the Sea Around Us Project depicts elements of a marine ecosystem. Designed by Ms. Mary Boone, the logo consists of three segments representing marine life: a fish, a sea turtle, and sea grass. The fish segment moves toward the other three puzzle pieces, and the counterclockwise motion represents ecosystem rebuilding. In full colour, the fish segment is in UBC Gold, as a metaphor for the lasting value of fish. The remaining segments are in marine blue. These colours also occur in the Fisheries Centre's logo.